Word: psychos
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...Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal This revival prompts a question: Herman Wouk, what were you thinking? In the context of his great sea saga - published as a novel in 1951 and turned into a 1954 film, then this play - the court-marshal of the psycho Captain Queeg is a demonstration of what happens when real-world wartime chaos gets translated into the cool legal niceties of the courtroom. But unmoored from its seagoing prologue, all that talk about Queeg's obsession with shirttails and strawberries lacks any dramatic punch. And why make so much of the betrayal of Lt. Keefer...
...young Marlon Brando in his room; it’s an apt comparison. When the older brother—a picture of bourgeoisie smugness—brings the murder out socially, his detachment is reminiscent of Christian Bale’s performance in “American Psycho.” It’s a scene that will remind college viewers of one too many dorm parties, with their esoteric meaningless ritual. Most surprising was the director’s enthusiasm for the incest plot narrative. It is not exploitive; their love is the only thing that seems...
...patrol car while he took a statement from Harry. Returning to the car, he "saw Bettie in the back seat, with her dress pulled up, panties around her knees, masturbating with a coat hanger that the officer had left" there. Fitzpatrick's report: "defendant psycho." Assault and battery and disorderly conduct charges were dropped after she recommitted herself to Jackson Memorial, where she spent six months, part of it under a suicide watch...
Special note needs to be given to an attack of slug creatures that would have given Freud nightmares. The image of one of them swallowing a man whole by flowing over his head, is among the most terrifyingly psycho-sexual sights this reviewer has seen on film in a long time...
...when one day she approached her on the stairs of their freshman dorm. “She grabbed my elbow and said, ‘I foresee us becoming great friends!’” Stefanik remembers. “I was like, ‘You psycho!’” In the first semester of her freshman year, Muharrar started comping the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The next semester, she was admitted. “I’m prone...